Word: shopgirls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie's boy-meets-girl story is simple, lighthearted and peopled with thoroughly likable characters. An ex-G.I. painter (Gene Kelly), happily roughing it on the Left Bank, picks up a charming shopgirl (Leslie Caron). They fall in love. He holds off a pleasantly wolf-girlish American heiress (Nina Foch) who is determinedly sponsoring him. But the shopgirl feels a stronger commitment to the devoted music-hall idol (Georges Guetary) who sheltered her through a wartime childhood. As it must for all lovers, especially in Paris, love finds...
Europe has grown used to having the U.S. copy its fashions. But Manhattan's Henry Rosenfeld, the shopgirl's Jacques Fath, last week turned the tables. He signed a deal with Count Aldo Borletti, Italian clothing manufacturer and owner of a 50-store department-store chain, to sell him 500 models a year to copy. Borletti, who figured he could sell $2,000,000 a year of Rosenfeld styles the first year, agreed to pay Rosenfeld some $50,000 for copying rights, plus royalties up to 10% on all dresses sold...
Then, as the comrades glared, Mannu disappeared into a shop, bought some rubber-soled shoes, a green necktie, a scarf, and a hat like the one he had admired in an American movie. He tipped the shopgirl $3, promenaded off with 25 friends to a lunch of lobster & champagne. He said that henceforth he would drink beer with his meals, travel only by plane. Then he flew off for Rome...